Laura Power

I had the opportunity to come over.

It was supposed to be for a year.

I ended up taking the opportunity by the horns and I ended up building life here.

I have two little girls who are also Cape Verdean Irish.

So they can really resonate with Pico's story as well, having the Cape Verdean dad and Irish mom.

So, yeah, here we are still here.

Oh my God.

So yeah, I mean, it's a destination that I suppose a lot of people still don't know.

They haven't discovered, as you said.

But I don't think that will be the case much longer, to be honest.

You know, I think the Cape Verde team have really done us proud in terms of putting Cape Verde on the map.

So we're three and a half hours from Portugal on a flight from Portugal and we're six hours on a flight from London.

Unfortunately, still no flights from Ireland.

We're probably the only European country with still no flights.

So we really, really need to get Ryanair Aer Lingus behind us and get some flights coming from Ireland to Cape Verde.

But yeah, it's a beautiful destination.

It's very like a European Caribbean.

You've got turquoise waters everywhere.

white powder beaches, loads of hotel groups over here already and more and more coming online.

So yeah, it's just a beautiful destination to come and take a holiday at.